2nd Oct 2022 @ 9:17 am

A 60-year-old man is in a serious condition after being rescued from drowning in Playa Blanca yesterday.

At 3.30 pm on Saturday 1st October, emergency services received a call from lifesavers on the beach, who reported that they had retrieved a man from the water at Playa Dorada, and were attemting to resuscitate him. 

The resuscitation attempts were apparently successful, and a medicalised ambulance took the man to the Hospital Dr. José Molina Orosa in Arrecife, where he was reported to be in a “serious” condition.

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